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Born at the Crest of the Empire

Tuesday, February 21, 2006

US is funnelling arms to Rwanda(maybe?)

The Sunday Times had an article a couple days ago(duh, Sunday,) which reported that the CIA rendition flights had been using bogus call numbers from another private airline. That's a story, but I had kind of assumed it, how else are they going to pull it off.

BUT, I didn't read far enough down in the article because near the bottom is an indication of some of the non-rendition illegal acts the CIA may be using these planes for.

While the Learjet was on the ground at Tuzla, an Ilyushin 76 was loading a cargo of 45 tons of surplus weapons and ammunition sold off by the Bosnian military and destined for Rwanda in defiance of a UN embargo.

The Ilyushin left Tuzla, flew over Italy and headed south in the direction of Africa. The American Learjet took off 55 minutes later.

In a report exposing arms trafficking to war-torn central Africa, Amnesty International has suggested that “US security authorities were engaged in a covert operation to ferry arms to Rwanda in the face of political opposition from the European Union”.

So, the official story is that these arms are headed for Rwanda which is illegal, but, looking at the history of CIA arms shipments, Iran Contra for instance, I can't say with certainty that Rwanda was the ultimate destination. They could be passing through Rwanda into the Congo civil war, or headed somewhere else entirely, maybe in Africa, maybe not. (after all, the subterfuge of false flight reporting is the whole point of the article.)

But something improper is certainly going down here and I think this is the story. The US is arming some nation or faction and it doesn't want it publicly known. So I thought I'd do what I could to make it so.

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